Broom-holder



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No. 599,744.A A Pafnted Mar. 1, 1998.

JNrrEn- STATES PATENT Erica.

HENRY L. sTEiNMEYER, or SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.

BROONl-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 599,744, dated March 1, 1898). Application filed July 1, 1897. Serial No. 643,121. (No model.)

.T all whom t may concern:

Be itknown that I, HENRY L. STEINMEYER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sacramento, in the county of Sacramento and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Broom-Holders and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to My invention has relation to broom-holders,

n and more particularly to that class of broomholders used in stores or factories for displaying the brooms to the public.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap, simple, and durable broom -holder which may be either built in the ceiling of a store while in course of construction or which may be attached to the ceiling after the store has been completed.

With this object in View the invention con-Y sists of certain features of construction and combination of parts, which will be hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a view illustrating my broom-holder as applied to the rafters of a building. Fig. 2 is a which is normally less than the diameter of the holes. These jaws are adapted to clamp the broom-handle. The outer ends of .the bail are provided with prongs 4:', which are driven into the board, while the bight of the bail is connected to the board by a staple, so as to allow the bight to move back and forth in the act of inserting or removing a broomhandle into and from the jaws ofthe bail.

It is .evident that the board should have a space above it, so that the ends of the broomhandle. may be projected through the board. In Fig. 1 I have shown the board connected ssv serve to space the board properly in the ceiling and to permit of the broom-handle being passed forwardly through the board a distance corresponding to' the thickness of the blocks.

The modified form is illustrated in Fig. 3, in which the prongs on the free ends of the limbs 4 4 are dispensed with and said ends terminate in integral eyes 6 6 to receive a suitable nail or screw for securing these ends to the board.

When the rafters or ceiling is at too great a height for conveniently attaching and removing the brooms, the board l maybe xed to brackets secured to the Walls of an apartment, so that the brooms maybe conveniently handled, or the brackets may be dispensedv clamping-jaws coincident with the aperture and of less area than the aperture, said bail being provided with prongs adapted to penetrate the board, and a staple loosely embracing the bight of the bail to permit of longitudinal movement of the bail in the act of expanding and contracting when a broomhandle is being inserted or removed, substantially as set forth.

2. vThe combination with a support provided with an aperture, a bail, having clamping-jaws coincidentwith the aperture and of IOO In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

HENRY L. STEINMEYER.

lVitnesses:

W. F. LONG, F. L. LINDQUIsT. 

